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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07
The Language Of Gloves.

For "Yes," drop one glove from the
right into the left hand. "No" is
meant by rolling both gloves in the
right hand. If you want to express
that you are indifferent to a partner,
take the right hand glove partly off.
1t you wish a male friend to follow
you into the next room, strike your
left arm with both gloves. ~ love
you still" is expressed by slowly and
carefully smoothing both gloves. If
lady desires to know whether her
affection is reciprocated, she puts on
half the left-hand glove, one finger at
time. "Be on your guard against
the governor" or "my mother.in law"
as the case may be, is message often
sent, and is given by delioately twist
ing the glove fingers roand the
thumb. If the damsel is in a quarrel
some moo,l she simply makes a
cross with both her gloves and pro-
ceeds to lay them on her lap in tina.
position.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07
CAMAS PRAIRIE NOTES.
Preparing for the Seasons Work-The
Rxnchers Opposed b Disisioa-Etc.

Preparing for the Seasons Work-The
Rsnchers Opposed h Disisioa-Etc.
The residents on Camas Prairie are
delighted with the recent storm, Al
it insures them an abundant supply
of water for farming purposes next
summer.
The acreage of grain will be much
larger this year than ever before
Every settler will SOW from FIVE to q
hundred acres, and the aggregate will
reach into the thousands especially
If the proposed Touring mill is erected
in Bellevue.
New settlers are coming in RICH,
along, Notwithstanding the season,
and letters from Kansas, Nebraska,
Missouri and Iowa foreshadow heavy
immigration this year. 1t is probable
that by next fall there will not be a
desirable location on the prairie re.
naming unclaimed.
The roads to the timber have been
open all winter, and thousands OF
posts and poles cut for fencing.
The ranchers have plenty to eat,
and as for amusements there is an
occasional s'fandango" and the Soldie,
Lyeeum, which supports a literary
paper called the "Soldier Gimlet,''
which is issued every Friday evening
by Lewis Lavake. 1t is a professedly
humorous paper, but most OF the Jokes
would make Artemus Ward come out
OF his grave, if a copy OF the pape.
got within 500 miles of him.
Even if the county should DO d.
vided, the ranchers would still come
to Wood River to trade, because the
mines afford them the only marke,
they can get. West of Soldier there
Is more produced than can be con.
suned. This is why none of the
ranchers banker after division, except
q few would-be politicians, who i'm.
agine that new county would afford
them an opportunity of getting rich
ut the peoples expense. Ranchers
are not fools, and know very we'll tha,
more officials would simply mean
heavier taxes.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07
THE DONOVAN COMPANY.
1t will Surely Build Mill, but Has
Not Decided Upon Its Location.


Ole Rorem, who returned last Sat-
urday from the East, made arrange
ments while away to have mill man
ufactured; but he has not yet decided
whether it will be steam or water
power mill. He knows that there is
no water for power purposes on the
Gold Belt, and that the supply for
the stamps, pans, boilers, etc., is very
limited. He therefore would prefer
to locate his mill somewhere on Wood
River. But here comes the hitch, as
he fears it will cost couple Of dol
lars ton to haul the ore to Wood
Rlver-and that itself would be no
mean profit when SO or more tons are
to be reduced daily.
Before he decides upon the location
of his mill, Mr.. Rorem will therefore
endeavor to satisfy himself as to two
points. The first will be: Will the
proposed Gold Belt railway be built!
And the second this: VIII the new
water.power company be able to sup.
ply cheap motive-power at an early
date9
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07
The Independence Looming Up.

The Ketehum Keystone reports the
Independence mine, which is situated
on the Elkhorn-P Parker ore channel,
and on the East Fork divide, as in
creasing in size and value as depth is
attained. The deepest workings are
$50 feet from the surface, and the
ore-vein averages four feet in width,
of which about one-third goes 200
ounces per ton. As soon as the roads
open in the spring, the Independence
will become one of our best ore pro-
ducers.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07
Brace Up.

You are feeling depressed, your appe-
tite is poor, you are bothered with head
ache, you are fldgetty, nervous, and gen.
orally out of sorts, and want to brace up.
Brace up, but not with stimulants, spring
medicines, or bitters, which have for
their basis very cheap, bad whisky, and
which stimulate you for an hour, and
then leave you in worse condition than
before. What you want is an Alternative
that will purify your blood, start healthy
action of liver and kidneys, restore your
vitality, and give renewed health and
strength. Such medicine you will find
In Electric Bitters, and only so cents q
bottle at j. A. Rupert's drug store.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07

Fine bar goods at Hendricks.
Got your Gem Roller Mill Flour at
the l. F. Co.'S store.
County Treasurer Hague came up
from Bellevue to-day.
The south hound train was over one
hour late in leaving HALEY to-day.
Hay aud grain of every description
at the Idaho Forwarding Company's
store.
~L Location notices, for both lode
and placer claims, for sale at the
TINES Office.
Luud & Anderson, the tailors, have
moved to their fine new quarters in
Krieg's block.
General John 3. Winters left to.
day for Salt Lake City, to be gone
shout three weeks.
C. H. Furey will leave tomorrow
for the Lucky Bar placers. He will
be gone about one week.
A lot of Stalled cattle aud sheep,
Of their own feeding, just received
from Fish Creek, by James & Har-
rington.
Hon. John NJ. Cannady is still feel
ing somewhat under the weather, but
able to be out. He will be all right
again in few days.
Captain Buzzo went out to the
Gold Belt last Friday, stayed over
night 1t the Deadwood mine, and
came back Saturday. He came i'll in
1T hours, ON Nose Cutters sleigh.
County Commissioner Warren col.
ieeted, to-day, the subscriptions to.
ward the school bell, gong, etc. He
said that he thought there would be
enough to fix bell and gong in good
shape.
The north-bouad train reached
HALEY two hours late to-day. This
was not very bad, considering the
weather, and that this was Monday;
that there was, consequently, two
days freight to handle.
The telephone wires were working
20 all points to-day, but that to the
depot and those to Bellevue were no,
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07

In very gosd condition, as the SUBJ
scrlbers could scarcely understand
what was said from those points.
The people OF Ketchum are peti.
tioning for = mail route to Smokey,
via Warm Springs creek, They
should get it, as it would accommodate
hundreds of miners and prospec,ors,
not to mention the mine and mill
owners.
A $4,000 monument is about to be
erected over the grave of John
Booth, editor and proprietor of the
Austin New Reveille, who died
about a year ago. The deceased was
the father Of the editor of the Idaho
Recorder.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Coffin will leave
next Monday for the Eastern States
to be gone about one month. Mr..
Coffin goes for the purpose of pur-
chasing a heavy stock of hardware,
and Mrs. Coffin goes to visit her reia-
tives in Iowa.
No positive news from Boise to day,
beyond few letters stating that our
men are working with might and
main. and that the division bill would
not be reported to-day. The division
lists are quarreling among themselves
over the seats of the proposed new
counties.
w. S. Mack & Co. have just opened
q shop on Main street, two doors
above Plughof's harness store, where
they will manufacture mattresses, etc.,
and do all kinds of upholstering
work They are new corners, but in
tend to do their level best to give sat-
isfaction.
The Woman Suffrage bill has been
defeated in the lower house of the
Idaho Legislature, by vote of IA to
10. This is really too bad, as the
comforting of the suffrage on women
would have greatly advertised Idaho
and tended to encourage that immi.
grafton of which we stand in such
need.
Captain Stowe got back Saturday
from the Snake River placer mines,
where he has been for the past two or
three months. The weather being
cold and the claim having been put
on a paying basis, he sold out to his
partners for sum mutually satlsfac.
tory, and he will return in the spring.
In the meantime be will rest in Haley
a while.
Assemblyman Goodrich, who was
so properly knocked down, in the
House, at Boise, last Friday, by D. P.
B. Pride, because he called the latter
son of B., is said to be one OF
the gang of deserters from Pap
Prices army who, reinforced by a
number of Missourians from Pike
county, settled in Western Idaho and
Eastern Oregon in the sixties.
James Richardson is in from the
Gold Belt, having come in yesterday.
through the storm, in 81 hours. He
reports everything out there looking
finely, and says that the Camas No. 2
mill will undoubtedly secure a supply
of water from Camp creek in the
spring, although it will have to be
pumped up over 100 feet to the top
of the divide between Croy gulch and
Camas Prairie.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07
Testimony OF q DRUGGIST.

We are gratl6ed to report that
Aaron Blaydss, living near this place,
and who has been suffering with a Sc
we're case of blood poison, is now
we'd. He was cured by Swift's Spe-
ciGe. He was blind, and his body was
covered with eating sores. His suf-
ferings were intense, and he seemed
on the verge of the Stygian river,
and had made every preparation to
go to "that bourne from whence no
traveller returns" We furnished him
with supply of Swift's Specific, and
he is now we'll.
T. CAvEN & Co., Druggists.
Atlanta, Texas, Sept. 10, 1886.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07
SOMETHING WRONG.
Boise Mail Natter from Three to Six
Days On the Read.

>SssVA
Days On the Read.
There is something wrong about
the postal service between Wood
River aud Boise, Is letters from one
place to the other are frequently four
days and over on the way. This is
only recently-since the Legislature
has been in session. In ordinary
times letters are transmitted in "a
hours. As the railway postal clerks
are always prompt and efficient, and
no neglect has been traced to them
for years, it looks as If the trouble was
with the Boise Office. A letter written
to the TIMES by Judge Beatty on the
29th of January did not reach this
Office until the 3rd inst.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07
Notice.,

The sale of property on which the
special tax levied in Haley School
District, in December, 1886, has be
come delinquent, which has been ad
vertised for this date, is hereby post.
poned until to morrow, February 9Th,
1887, at o'clock p. m.
A. W. NICHOLS,
Special School Tax Collector.
HALEY, Idaho, Feb. Z, 1887.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07
ketchum Votes for School Bonds,

At an election held in Ketchum
last Saturday, to test the feeling of
the taxpayers on the proposition of
issuing bonds for the purpose of
building schoolhouse, the vote stood
in favor of the bonds by about 80 to
l. A list Of the taxable property of
the district will be made out at once,
in order to ascertain the amount that
can be issued (Which will not exceed
$12,OO0) and the new schoolhouse
will be got ready for the fall term.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07

"My little son, three years Of age,
was terribly afflicted with scrofula.
His head was entirely covered with
scrofulous sores, and his body showed
many marks of the disease. A few
bottles of Ayers SarsapariIla cured
him."-W. J. Beckett, Hymera, Ind.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07
Obstacles to Marriage.

Happy relief from Excuses in early
youth. Nervous debility and all
Chronic special diseases cured by the
New Treatment. Obstacles to mar.
rage removed. Books, Circulars and
Reports sent free in sealed envelopes.
Address
Howard Association, PAILADRL-
PMIA, PA. ie23m6d&w
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07
"Engaged" to be Repeated.

The local amateurs have rendered q
complimentary benefit to Mr.. Moizan,
manager of the HALEY Theater, who
has fixed upon Saturday, February
18th, as the date. The play will be
Engaged" aud the house will doubt.
less be crowded.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07
A GOLDEN OPINION.

] have used your Specific in a mum.
Der of cases in the last II months
always finding good results. At pres.
ent l have a patient in my charge
who has cancer. Lam treating him
on Swift's Specific alone, and believe
it will effect permanent cure, and
can safely recommend it to the public
as being one Of the best blood puri.
fiers l have ever tried.
w. S. GOLDEN, NJ. d.
Worthwhile, Ky, Aug. II. 1886.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis
eases mailed free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Drawer
3, Atlanta, Ga.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07

By the piece, n and Is cents each.
In lots of 100, one-half of above prices.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07
LOCAL JOTTINHS.

. Below zero
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-02-07

Soda Springs Mineral Water,
The best in the world--at the Idaho
Forwarding Company's.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Masking the Sense of Taste.

DR.. Watson Smith of London reports
the case of his own boy, critically sick
with dysentery and the stomach so
sensitive that vomiting was excited
Immediately if an attempt was made to
administer anything. The doctor then
thought of the sedative effect of per-
fumery, and argued that if he could so
deceive the patient as to cause the
imagination to attribute to the article
administered the delicate flavor of the
perfumery the effect upon the olfactory
nerves would be soothing upon the
nerves of the palate and stomach. Some
simple diet was given in a spoon held
with handkerchief upon which deli
cate perfume was sprinked. The effect
was excellent, and after short time
medicines could be given in the same
way and were retained without further
disturbance of the stomach, and the
patient rapidly recovered. This plan
of masking the sense of taste through
the influence of perfumery upon the
olfactory nerves may be equally pleas
ant to adults. -Pop,tlar Science Monthly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Spoiled Children.

1t is no exaggeration to say that there
are thousands of children of educated
and influential parents who grow as the
weeds do, unframed and uncared-for
The demands of fashion, society and
frivolous living relegate the care of the
children to persons of inferior intelli-
gence and often of questionable sound
ness in other ways. INDUCED, petted,
overfed and overdressed, the future of
such children is simply accidental.
Every phase of vanity is cultivated until
dress becomes an eXtravagant license,
and in all essential points the character
is weakened. These wavering, fitful
people reach the "grown-up" period
without real true anchorage, and as
sumo the responsibilities of life with
out knowledge of their vast impor-
lance, and nine times out of ten, if as
sailed by strong temptations, are
bowled down like set of nine-pins.-
Macon Telegraph.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
For Sale!

A FARM of 1850 acres of good land; good house
N well finished and convenienti good barns and
outbuildngs; cuts nifty tons of hay; four miles
from depot and village, Price only 81 800. For q
particular description write to inquire of DENNIS
LANE, Montpelier, VT,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Competition a Condition OF
Progress.

With advancing civilization COMPETE
ton changes its forms, its methods,
but never disappears. Reformers who
would eliminate it from the active life
of man disregard the fact that under
its influence man has always acted, and
that it has been and is now as essential
to progress as are association and CO.
operation. Competition between ma
tions even now is, to a considerable
extent, competition in military strength,
in ability to arm and equip large armies
for the destruction of life and prop
erty. AS the sympathies of men
broaden and the interests of nations
become more interdependent, war
must cease, when the vast energies
which war now absorbs will be given
to the pursuits of peace. In all the
peaceable arts and industries upon
which non-military community must
depend for rank and influence COM
petition, under a different form, of
course, is just as necessary to success
as it is in community which relies
upon its preparation and genius for
war. And competition in the indus
trial world, as in the lower forms of
the struggle of life, means the success
of some and the failure of others; pros
perity here, hardship and suffering
there; injury to one class or community
by reason of circumstances which prove
advantageous to others. Thus Mr..
John Fretwell writes that since the
heaviest blow inflicted upon Hungarian
prosperity in the last few years has
come from the competition of your west
ern prairies with the plains of Hungary,
formerly the granary of western Europe,
| venture to ask you to draw the atten-
ton of Americans also to this terrible
misfortune that has befallen our poor
brethren in Hungary" The fertility
of our western prairies, and the enter
prise of our western farmers and of our
grain-merchants, have contributed to
the prosperity of this country; but it
seems that they have brought " terrible
misfortunes upon Hungarians-a fact
not pleasant to contemplate. Perhaps
the Hungarian farmers who are suffer-
ing from inability to compete success
fully with our western farmers will be
forced into raising other products or be
compelled to turn their attention to
other industries in which they may in
time become so prosperous as to be the
cause of misfortune elsewhere as
great as that which has befallen them.
1t is this very necessity of putting forth
new energies, of forming new plans
and trying new experiments that spurs
men onward, forces them out of old
ruts and urges them to make the
changes and the adjustments without
which progress is impossible. The
most that philosophy can do is to Sc
cure as far as possible equality of OPP
portunity for all, and to afford to the
incapable and the weak such encour-
agement and direction and help as will
make them fit to survive.-1he Open
Court
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Table Manners in Zanzibar.

Talking of eating reminds me of the
way this operation is performed by the
Arabs. Five of them seat themselves
around large bowl of rice surmounted
by skinny fowl, all being curried.
Two seize the wings with their fingers
and two the legs, and simultaneously
tearing these off, leave the carcass to
the fifth, afterward taking out the rice
by handfuls and dextrously conveying
it to the mouth with a peculiar ERIK.
One mark of hospitality shown to guests
when at table consists in the chiefs
rolling up some rice into a ball in the
palm of his hand and aiming it at his
guests widely-distended jaws. On one
occasion this piece of civility was
shown to myself; but not being an
adept in the art of swallowing rice-balls
when so projected, the effect was any
thing but what my kind entertainer an
ticipated, for, independently of being
nearly choked, the grains were scat
tered, or rather sputtered, over the table
in manner that elected roars of laugh
ter even from the grave Arabs. This,
of course, was the last experiment of
the kind tried upon me-. Study
Leigh, IN July Orerland
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Convictions.

81 lately found myself questioning if
it were worth while to have any con-
victions about anything queer mood
for one to fall into whose convictions
are wont to be of the most positive,
and who has ever been accused of set
ting them forth with a certain dog
matism," says writer in the Contrib
uOrS' Club. "But when everybody diff
fers from everybody else, and each
ones opinions hold good for ones self
alone, of what particular use are they
to the individual, after all? Tastes we
may have, which serve in the choice of
what we shall eat to-day or the dress
we shall buy tomorrow; principles
most of us believe we have, for the
conduct of our individual life; but
when it is a matter of social relations
intercourse with our fellow-beings-
how then? My ideas are mine, and
unless they are also yours the COM
monest result of contact is collision,
the consequences of which are often
most serious and deplorable with the
better sort of people. Men and women
whose opinions are adopted, things
merely external to themselves, can
easily modify or give them up when it
is convenient. But even among the
more broad-minded of those persons
whose ideas are their very own the
possession of them seems to create so
many obstacles to harmonious and sat
isfactory fellowship. Who has not
learned from observation, or from sad
personal experience, that in the case of
a misunderstanding or offence given
between friends good intentions on
both sides may avail nothing to re-
move the cloud or mend the breach?
Each one strives to act the true, gener-
Gus part according to his lights, but
they are not agreed as to what consti-
tutes magnanimity or even bare JUS
tice. Each fails, therefore, to COM
prehend the other-even to appreciate
the good intention, perhaps the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Singing Sands.

a correspondent of the Stockton (Cal.)
MAJ gives an account of visit to some
wonderful singing sands in a desert on
one of the South Pacific islands. In
the center of the desert are about a
dozen cocoanut trees, and five miles
distant is the ocean. After a hot ride
through the blazing sun cool breeze
from the ocean set in, and the writer
adds: " began to feel the soft touch
of slumber, and all at once | heard
faint musical tinkling, as if troops of
fairies were coming to greet us as they
used to the enchanted princes in the
olden days. | tried to locate the melo-
dious sounds. In all directions there
was nothing but hot, glowing sand. /
looked up-there was nothing but the
beautiful tropical sky and the tremu-
lous atmosphere. Still louder sounded
the music; it was all around us, it filled
the air. | gazed toward the ocean, and
there, apparently short distance away,
was beautiful lake, with its waves
dashing upon moss-cOvered stones. Ia
Pule had fallen asleep and gazing at
the lake and listening to the music in
the air, rested my head against the
rough bark of a tree. AS / did so I
heard the distant gurgle of brook I
could plainly hear the water splashing
over the glistening stones and dying
away in quiet eddies. / was more and
more bewildered, and at length awoke
Ia Pule. l told him what | had heard
and directed his attention to the lake.
He explained that the seeming lake was
mirage; that the sound of gurgling
waters came from an underground
stream, and that the music was caused
by the stirring of the hinty sands by
the wind"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27

result is hopeless arrangement. 1t is
the mind prepossessed with high belief,
George Eliot says, that interprets 9th
ers largely. True, and yet it may
happen that that very preoccupation of
mind by lofty and generous ideas
makes it difficult for it to conceive of
lower and narrower ones as co-existent
with genuine goodwill and purpose"